by Aptus PM Team | Dec 21, 2023 | Market Updates
Who Is John Galt? In 1957, Ayn Rand, an anti-statist public intellectual, wrote her magnum opus – Atlas Shrugged. The best-selling dystopian novel depicted a United States devastated by excessive taxation and government regulation. At its core, Ayn Rand’s main...
by JD Gardner | Dec 6, 2023 | Market Updates
“By continuing the process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. By this method they not only confiscate, but they confiscate arbitrarily, and, while the process impoverishes...
by Derek Hernquist | Dec 5, 2023 | Market Updates
Given the popularity of our weekly Market in Pictures, we thought it made sense to pick out a few and go into more detail with our PMs. In this edition, Dave and John Luke will spend a few minutes on each of the following: Equal-weighted S&P 500 vs. Cap-weighted...
by Aptus PM Team | Nov 7, 2023 | Market Updates
In our recent piece Enhancing Your (Portfolio) Engine, we walked through our logic: Own more stocks, in a risk-neutral way Embrace beta to capture the ups Use volatility to mitigate the downs We think the math behind that combo is a great recipe for successful client...
by Derek Hernquist | Nov 2, 2023 | Market Updates
Given the popularity of our weekly Market in Pictures, we thought it made sense to pick out a few and go into more detail with our PMs. In this edition, Dave and John Luke will spend a few minutes on each of the following: Portfolio performance with equal-weighted...
by JD Gardner | Oct 9, 2023 | Market Updates
We will build on this note in weeks to come. As you’ve probably heard us say, we think it makes sense to equip portfolios with a stronger engine (stocks), using better brakes (hedges) to stay risk-neutral vs. traditional benchmarks. If you’ve heard us speak...
